Lecrae performs at a Prison Fellowship Hope Event at a prison facility outside Columbia, South Carolina, 2021. | Prison Fellowship
The worldâs largest evangelical prison ministry, Prison Fellowship, has teamed up with popular artists in Christian music, including Grammy Award-winning rapper Lecrae, in its annual effort to highlight the month of April as âSecond Chance Month.âÂ
Prison Fellowship, an organization that has offered hope, restoration and healing for prisoners, their families, and victims for more than 40 years, seeks to bring light to the restrictions and stigmas associated with incarceration as many ex-prisoners are doing their best to turn their lives around.Â
Lecrae performs at a Prison Fellowship Hope Event at a prison facility outside Columbia, South Carolina, 2021. | Prison Fellowship
The world’s largest evangelical prison ministry, Prison Fellowship, has teamed up with popular artists in Christian music, including Grammy Award-winning rapper Lecrae, in its annual effort to highlight the month of April as “Second Chance Month.”
Prison Fellowship, an organization that has offered hope, restoration and healing for prisoners, their families, and victims for more than 40 years, seeks to bring light to the restrictions and stigmas associated with incarceration as many ex-prisoners are doing their best to turn their lives around.
It s a community that I feel connected to, Lecrae said in 2019. These are people that need love and need encouragement, that the world kind of forgets about. God still loves them, so do I.
Lecrae has had his own run-ins with the law and has talked openly about his wild teenage years growing up in Houston, Texas. My uncles were young and wrapped up in the streets, gangs and drugs and just promiscuous, he told CBN in a previous interview. I idolized it. I wanted to be the gang member. I wanted every tattoo that (my uncle) had. I saw my first gun and all these different things. I was like, This must be what it means to be a man.
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Prison Fellowship and FAMM hosted a panel to discuss the crack cocaine disparity in the criminal justice system on March 9, 2021. | Zoom
The world s largest evangelical prison ministry organization has voiced support for a Democrat-sponsored bill that could eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and cocaine powder in federal sentencing laws that disproportionately affect black Americans.
In a reporter s roundtable on Tuesday, Prison Fellowship partnered with Families Against Mandatory Minimums to discuss the difference between how crack and powdered cocaine are punished in the criminal justice system.
During the event, reporters heard from individuals who have suffered from this disparity and advocate for how the Equal Act could rectify the problem.